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  • Collection: Winter Park History Reference - Biography

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"Black bass such as this are not frequently caught." It records the weight of the fish as 12 pounds, 1 ounce!

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Henkel Block was located on the corner of New England and Park Avenue. The building contained five stores plus Dr. Henkel's medical office and a drug store.

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Thomas M. Henkel, Dr. Henkel's son, also served this community. In 1912, he was elected mayor of Winter Park. He was elected alderman in 1910, 1915, and 1924. 1928 brought a change in the way the elections were held. Instead of holding a city…

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Bessie Galloway, daughter-in law of Dr. Henkel, is Thomas Henkel, Jr.'s mother. Bessie owned and operated two Winter Park businesses independently for many years. Due to the lack of public confidence in women's entrepreneurial abilities, Bessie G.…

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Edwin Grover Newspaper photograph

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Here at Rollins: The Rollins Plan in word and picture
Caption: "A class in books with Dr. Edwin O. Grover"

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Caption: "The Publications Union Means Business"
(Dr. Grover is seated at the table, the second from the right)

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"Conference Plan establishes a close and friendly relation between professor and student" - Dr. Grover

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Holland Willis Griswold with granddaughter, Lucy Eager May and grandniece, Nellie Baker.

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Photograph of Holland Willis Griswold.

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Researcher Sondra Ickes won the 1996 Smith Grant for her work: Biography of Winter Park Artist and Horticulturist Wilhelmina "Billie" Greene

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Photograph of the painting: Mystic, Connecticut

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Photograph of the painting: Women in Guatemala

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Photograph of the painting: House and Garden

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Greene's book Flowers of the South: Native and Exotic was published in 1953 and featured hundreds of her drawings.

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This wedding photograph depicts the wedding party posing in front of the Greene home on Chase Avenue.

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Billie Greene expanded on her painting skills to include tropical fabric designs for home decorating. Her paintings of Heliconia and Passion Flower designs for fabrics were sold to Riverdale Manufacturing Company in New York.
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